Article 558E3 New rightwing free speech site Parler gets in a tangle over … free speech

New rightwing free speech site Parler gets in a tangle over … free speech

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Poppy Noor
from Technology | The Guardian on (#558E3)

The social network bills itself as a no censorship' bastion - but it's already had to remind users what is and isn't allowed

In recent weeks, Donald Trump has started having his tweets factchecked and published with disclaimers when they contain misleading information. Katie Hopkins, the woman who once compared migrants to cockroaches and called for a final solution" in relation to Muslims, has been banned from Twitter. And a subreddit called r/The_Donald has been banned after Reddit updated its hate speech guidelines - Reddit said in a statement that mocking people with physical disabilities" and describing a racial minority as sub-human and inferior to the racial majority" will not be allowed.

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